Jessica Clark

Executive Director

Jessica (she/her/hers) has over twenty years of experience working in the non-profit sector in both K12 education and the arts. She is passionate about speech and debate programming and committed to improving equity and access, and creating more opportunities for BIPOC.  Prior to her work in Denver, she spent eight years working in speech and debate education with the New York Urban Debate League. She was the founding Program Director of the Brooklyn Debate Resource Center, where she provided full-time debate support for hundreds of middle school and high school debaters in Brooklyn. Jessica was a successful collegiate debater representing the University of New Mexico.  She holds an M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.  
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Ruby Nunez

Interim Program and
​Operations Manager

Ruby was the Programs and Operations Manager for DUDL from 2016-2020 and is an alumna from the DUDL Class of 2011.  In 2015 she completed her Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science at Regis University where she was a member of the debate team and DUDL volunteer. Ruby earned her Master of Science in Environmental Science specializing in Water Quality in 2019. While her area of study is science centric, she is passionate about speech and debate and looks forward to supporting the DUDL to the best of her abilities. She has returned to DUDL as the Interim Programs and Operations Manager.

Juniper Bessemer

Programming Assistant

Coming Soon!
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Timothy Rubio

Media Coordinator

Timothy is a Senior at the University of Denver studying computer science with a focus on game development. His work with DUDL is his first experience with Urban Debate, but he is passionate about learning and supporting our core values and mission. Timothy handles our website and other media content and hopes to use his technical education to elevate DUDL’s online presence to the next level.
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